Minisode Monday #74 | Psychological Halloweenism

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🗓️ 9 October 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Welcome to Minisode Monday, where we kick off the week with something quick and actionable -- to make you more magnetic and effective -- that you can implement right away. This time around, Tinker Dabble Doodle Try: Unlock the Power of the Unfocused Mind author Dr. Srini Pillay rejoins us to talk about a process known as psychological halloweenism -- the act of taking on an alternative mindset as a way of unlocking creative potential. If you like this Minisode Monday, make sure to check out our full episode with Dr. Pillay here! Let's get to it! The Cheat Sheet: You don't have to be a little kid to benefit from the rewards of playing make-believe. We all tend to think of ourselves in one way -- we're good at some things and less adept at others. What happens when we mentally pretend to see the world from the perspective of someone else? Someone who, for instance, we imagine to be more creative than us? This is called psychological halloweenism, and it can be a powerful way to solve problems and cope with situations we feel ill-prepared (as ourselves) to deal with. "If you think like somebody else," says Dr. Pillay, "you will get yourself out of your own mental traps, your own habits, and you will begin to think from somebody else's perspective." Practice psychological halloweenism at the dinner table, at innovation meetings at work, or with your friends. You'll be surprised at what you can discover about your own mind's capabilities when you try to think like somebody else. To learn more about social dynamics and productivity hacks, take the Art of Charm Challenge by clicking here, or text AOC to 38470. Also be sure to check out our Social Capital Intensive here! Let us know about how you put today's Minisode Monday into practice! Tweet with @TheArtofCharm in your response or write to Jordan directly: jordan@theartofcharm.com (he actually reads everything)! Full show notes at https://theartofcharm.com/podcast-episodes/minisode-monday-74-psychological-halloweenism/ Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! Take the Art of Charm Challenge by clicking here, or text AOC to 38470. We'll take you step by step to becoming better at making personal and professional connections, becoming a better networker, increasing your personal social capital and charisma. This is for both men and women! HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Jordan Harbinger here from the Art of Charm. Welcome to Mini-Sodemunday, your weekly
0:04.7	shot of personal development espresso. Happy to be here with you kicking off the week with
0:08.9	something quick and actionable that you can implement right away that'll make you more
0:13.5	magnetic. And effective. We're back with Dr. Sreeni, play author of Tinker, Dabble,
0:18.9	Doodle, Try. One of the vignettes of this book, one of the little practicals that I loved
0:24.2	that I thought sounded really fun was embodying somebody who's more eccentric than you are,
0:30.5	who's more creative at problem solving than you are. How do we start this? This seems
0:34.3	almost like, how can that work? How can I just pretend to be better at something than
0:38.7	I am? And then suddenly, it's true. So, so this particular cycle, this phenomenon,
0:45.5	psychological Halloweenism, because it's really taking on the psyche of someone else.
0:50.2	And it was based in a study by Dunbar and colleagues who found that they firstly, they defined
0:55.3	two stereotypes. They did a study and they found that the rigid stereotype largely correlated
1:01.4	with the rigid librarian. And the flexible stereotype correlated with an eccentric poet.
1:07.2	And people have asked me in the past, not all librarians are rigid, not all, and that's
1:11.0	true. But in this study, that's what they chose, it's the stereotypes. So they found that
1:15.9	if they gave them the classic problem to measure creativity, which is called the multiple
1:20.2	uses test. And the way it goes is, here's a brick, starting in five seconds, I want you
1:26.9	to give me as many uses for this as possible, one, two, three, four, five, go. Now, and I
1:31.6	want you to do that, embodying the personality of an eccentric poet. So you could, you
1:36.1	could just say, you know, pretty much, you know, anything that you think embodies the psyche
1:40.6	of a poet, you know, as I look out to see and watch the wonderfulness of the water crashing
1:45.9	on the shore, just take yourself into that linguistic pet, make it up however you want
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